Coat and hat hook.



(Application filed July 1. 1898.)

(No Model.)

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COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,935, dated January 9, 1900.

Application filed July 1, 1898- Serial No. 684,930. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. PARMELEE, of the city and county of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Coat and Hat Hooks, of which the followingis aspecification,accompanied by drawings forming a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of one of my improved hooks. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hook with the wall-plate removed, and Fig. 3 is afront View.

Similar letters refer to similar parts 'on the difierent figures.

My invention relates to that class of coat and hat hooks which are made from a single piece of'wire doubled upon itself to form the upper and lower hooks and provided with a screw-threaded end by which the hook is attached to the wall.

My improved hook is made from a single piece of wire having a screw-thread a formed upon one end adapted to be screwed into the Wall, and when the hook is in position the wire extends horizontally from the wall the requisite distance and is then turned upway the semicircular curved portion f.

denotes a wall-plate, preferablycut from ductile sheet metal and having a hole 70 to receive the screw-threaded end of the wire. The wall-plate 70 extends downwardly and is provided at thelower end with two lateral lugs or wing-pieces Z Z, which are bent forward and over the end j of the wire and the semicircular curved portion f. The lugs lserve to unite the curved portion f of the hook and the free end j of the wire and connect both with the horizontal straight portion of the wire next the screw-threaded section a. I thereby secure a double wire, forming an elongated loop in the lower hook, providing The two curved to form an oblique brace is not new.

. Neither is it new to twist together the two parts of the wire which form the upper hook, and I do not claim either of these features broadly. Neither do I claim the use of a wallplate connecting the upper and lower hooks, for such a wall-platewas shown' in Letters Patent of the United States No. 392,222, issued to me November 6, 1888 5 but in my present hook the curved section f of the lower hook is utilized as a brace between the wallplate and the center or intertwisted portion of the upper hook, so that the resistance of the brace will be applied to the central portion of the upper hook and a short distance from the wall-plate, thereby increasing the strength of the hook at its weakest point, or where it enters the wall.

WVhile I prefer to make the upper and lower hooks in the form of elongated loops, as described, I do not confine myself to any particular form of upper or lower hooks, as they may be changed, if desired. The intertwisting of the two parts of the wire forming the upper hook at the central section thereof is for the purpose of securing the joint resistance of both wires to a strain applied to the upper hook and also to secure the bracing action of the curved section of the lower hook at the central portion of the upper hook, and it is obvious that the two parts of the wire forming the upper hook may be united by other means than twisting and secure the same results. Therefore I do not confine myself to twisting the wire in the upper hook.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described coat and hat hook, comprising an upper and a lower hook and consisting of a single piece of wire provided at one end with a screw-thread a, adapted to be screwed into the wall, said wire extending horizontally from said screw-threaded end, when the hook is in position of use, and being bent upon itself to form an elongated loop '19, with its end turned slightly upward to form an upper hook I), with the two sides 0, d, of the loop twisted together at e, about midway between the hooked end and the screw-threaded end a; the side 01 being bent downward in a semicircular curve fand bent back upon itself at g, forming an elongated 100p h bent in semicircular form and constituting the lower hook 1 with the other end j, of the wire, terminating about midway the semicircular curved portion f, and a wall-plate 70 having a ARTHUR WV. PARMELEE.

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